Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

There's a lot in Scientology that develops confidence because there is peace, I think, that I've gotten just to know that what I do know, I do know.

What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.

The knowledge we gain about the secrets of the spiritual world is at every hour, at every moment, of vital and profound significance for our souls; what seems to be remote from us personally is often what the soul inwardly needs.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.